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Abstract

According to a report on psychiatry in West Germany (1975), about one-third of the West German people have had a mental illness at some time in their life or are still suffering from one. This amounts to approximately 20 million people. Of the 42 million Germans who see a doctor every year, between 4 and 8 million go because of mentally related problems. A million urgently need psychiatric or psychotherapeutic treatment. Every year 600,000 people go to a nerve doctor and 200,000 are admitted to a nerve clinic. These statistics say nothing about the number of patients or potential patients who seek help but find themselves trapped in the medical-psychological-psychiatric-psychotherapeutic labyrinth and do not get treatment from a specialist.

You see both have their places. Those diseases that are due to psychological neurosis, treat them according to psychological neurosis and suggestive therapeutics, and those that are due to material causes, then you have to give them the material treatment.